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  • - Identity, History, Political Theory
    av Nimi (Royalty Account) Wariboko
    1 646,-

    Offers a radical political interpretation of history that generates fresh insights into the emancipatory potential of ordinary Nigerians and their precolonial cultural institutions

  • av Jennifer Lofkrantz
    1 216,-

    Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads.

  • av Linda (Customer) Heywood
    2 056,-

    A detailed historiographical examination of the role the Ovimbundu people have played in Angolan politics from Portuguese colonization to the present.

  • - The African Diaspora in Reverse
    av Nemata (Royalty Account) Blyden
    1 406,-

    A history of the West Indians who migrated to Sierra Leone from the Caribbean after the abolition of slavery in 1807.

  • av Toyin Falola & Steven J. Salm
    680,-

    This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa.

  • - History, Memory, and Transnationalism
    av Raphael Chijioke (Contributor) Njoku
    456,-

    A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African American cultural artifacts

  • av Sarah L. (Customer) Franklin
    1 300,-

    Investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves

  • - Building Kwacha
    av Joey (Customer) Power
    1 760,-

    Malawi's political culture is examined as it emerged in the colonial and early post-colonial periods, particularly in light of anti-colonial protest.

  • - The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria
    av Andrew E. (Royalty Account) Barnes
    1 496,-

    A thought-provoking study of local peoples' participation in the process of cultural transfer in colonial Northern Nigeria.

  • av Messay (Royalty Account) Kebede
    1 276,-

    A provocative investigation into the root causes of the Ethiopian political upheavals in the second half of the twentieth century.

  • - The Murid Order
    av John (Royalty Account) Glover
    1 300,-

    Examines through the use of Murid oral and written sources the creation of an "alternative modernity" as an understanding of historical change by Sufi notables and disciples.

  • av Adiele (Royalty Account) Afigbo
    1 270,-

    A historical reconstruction of the campaign to end the slave trade in Southeastern Nigeria.

  • - Southern Gabon, c. 1850-1940
    av Christopher J. Gray
    1 430,-

    A look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of boundaries.

  • - Agriculture in Western Kenya during the "Development" Era
    av Muey (Customer) Muey Saeteurn
    1 276,-

    Traces the consequences of agricultural development in western Kenya in the 1950s and 1960s

  • av Celeste A. Fisher, Augustine Agwuele, Asonzeh Ukah, m.fl.
    1 440,-

    Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.

  • av Jack Taylor & Cajetan Iheka
    406 - 506,-

    Examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media, with an eye to the stylistic features of these works as well as their contributions to debates on migration

  • av Professor Timothy (Royalty Account) Stapleton
    1 496,-

    A look at the ambiguous experience of black security force personnel in white minority ruled colonial Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe].

  • - Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea
    av James (Customer) De Lorenzi
    456,-

    Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day.

  • av Alusine (Royalty Account) Jalloh
    1 590,-

    The first comprehensive book on the participation of Muslim Fula business elites in the post-independence politics of Sierra Leone

  • av Toyin Falola & Hetty Ter Haar
    560,-

    A comprehensive volume that offers historical and nuanced representations of war and peace in Africa from the fields of African studies and cultural studies, linguistics, journalism and the media, literature, film, drama and performance, women's and gender studies, and human rights.

  • - Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor
    av Ralph (Author) Callebert
    1 726,-

    Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South.

  • - The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940
    av Assan (Customer) Sarr
    830,-

    An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa.

  • - Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920
    av Jonathan E (Royalty Account) Robins
    1 646,-

    The story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton exporter.

  • av Kristin Mann & Philip Misevich
    1 840,-

    Essays draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence to cast new light on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as well as on the origins and development of the African diaspora.

  • - Mau Mau Nationalism in Kenya, 1952-1960
    av Mickie (Royalty Account) Mwanzia Koster
    1 550,-

    Opens a fresh conversation on the study of the Mau Mau rebellion and Kenyan history by arguing that Mau Mau was a nationalist movement rather than a Kikuyu war.

  • av Toyin Falola & Bessie Bessie House-so
    696,-

    The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.

  • - Racial Etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910-1963
    av Allison K. (Customer) Shutt
    756,-

    Shortlisted for the inaugural award of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize Tells the story of how people struggled to define, refine, reform, and ultimately overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics.

  • av Abiodun Alao
    580 - 1 626,-

    The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.

  • av Nimi (Royalty Account) Wariboko
    1 500,-

    Presents a multidisciplinary study of how Nigerian pentecostals conceive of and engage with a spirit-filled world, arguing that the character of the movement is defined through an underlying "spell of the invisible."

  • - Authority and Property in Colonial Ghana, 1920-1950
    av Naaborko (Person) Sackeyfro
    1 550,-

    Documents the profound societal changes that occurred in Accra, the capital city of the Gold Coast colony (modern Ghana), during the peak decades of British colonial rule, 1920-1950.

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